COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nicolas Poussin, Ten Commandments

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2003
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

This will increase your status and makes you a more powerful and persuasive speaker: repetition: another way speaking was learned in ancient grecian times to help gain memorization, memorize then repeat. Most powerful way of speaking. (socrates and phaedrus; writing changes how we remember things and it changes how persuasive they may be. And now these ideas can travel wherever they want: there is an unknowing when the message leaves the speaker now, phaedrus is about truth, not about knowing. Communication is somewhat limited in its geographical scope. Characterized by a series of speech acts: poetry and rap; the voice is the major medium, literacy, by contrast, meaning is grounded not in people, but in things (stone/paper). Whereas oral traditions are limited in its geographical scope, literacy has a huge geographical reach. Highlights phaedrus quote; in the act of writing something down, you are painting. You are undertaking a representation of that thing.